Kurt Cobain

Eight Kurt Cobain Fan Portraits That Look Nothing Like Kurt Cobain

We love the arts. We love Nirvana. We love when people paint portraits of Kurt Cobain that don't resemble him at all. Please enjoy this selection of fan art for sale on etsy. And artists, please don't be discouraged...we offer our suggestion of a comparable celebrity who your painting really resembl ... More >>

Top Five Acts at Paid Dues 2013

A few months into 2013 and we're less than a week away from the first big live hip-hop experience of the year. Last year was filled with immensely enjoyable shows all across Southern California, from Nas at Rock the Bells to Juicy J and ASAP Rocky at the Observatory. And, here we are, ready to start ... More >>

Paul McCartney To Play With Nirvana Tonight At The 12-12-12 Concert? Unfortunately, Yes

For those of you who may or may not know, tonight in New York City is the granddaddy of all Sandy concerts. Taking place at Madison Square Garden, tonight's show will feature some of the biggest names in music history including (drumroll please) Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band, Bon Jovi, Eri ... More >>

F+ Gallery and the Art of Noise

'Off the Record' features music-inspired artwork that sometimes sings, sometimes is out of tune

Tupac is Back: Six Dead Artists We Should Resurrect Via Hologram

As many of you know by now, Tupac performed at this year's edition of Coachella via hologram. When he appeared, the much-intoxicated crowd did not know what to do. It was as if Tupac had died and rose again (to many conspiracy theorists, that was a literal take). Now that we know how Dr. Dre and AV ... More >>

In Memory of Kurt Cobain: 5 of Nirvana's Most Iconic Songs

Kurt Cobain died 18 years ago today. Excuse me while I catch my breath and shake my head in disbelief. It's still unfathomable that after only three years in the spotlight, and in the midst of his creative prime that the Nirvana singer committed suicide. Enough stories have been written about him, b ... More >>

The Biggest Music Headlines of 2011

[Mental Notes] The news that kept us talking this year

Courtney Love Flips Out Onstage Over Cobain Poster, Continues Ranting About Dave Grohl

​On Sunday night, Courtney Love launched into an insane rant in the middle of a Hole set at Sao Paulo's SMU Festival after a fan waved a Kurt Cobain poster in front of her.

Shonen Knife's Naoko Yamano: 'I'm Ashamed to Write Songs About Love'

Shonen Knife​It's been three decades since beloved all-female Japanese pop-punk trio Shonen Knife formed, and although they have only one remaining original member, singer/guitarist Naoko Yamano, they still pump out an endearing mixture of pop, punk, food and fantasy that has attracted fans all ov ... More >>

Frances Bean Cobain: Is She Engaged to the Rambles' Isaiah Silva? (And He Kinda Looks Like Kurt Cobain)

​Is Frances Bean Cobain engaged to local band The Rambles' Isaiah Silva? According to various sources around town--and Facebook--yes. Sources say that the two, who have been dating for more than a year, changed their relationship status on the social networking site to engaged a few weeks ago. Alt ... More >>

Sly Stone and Six Other Musicians Who've Claimed Homelessness

​ Funk pioneer Sly Stone announced in the New York Post this week that he's homeless. Fans are lamenting Stone's predicament, but we see it as karmic retribution for the annoying omnipresence of his music (those who have heard "Everyday People" 90 times during a morning commute can relate).

Top 5 Defining MTV Moments (If You Were A Teen In The '90s)

​ Most people who grew up in the early '80s were lucky enough to witness MTV's revolutionary images but for many of us, who were just in grade school at the time, the cutting-edge visuals that appeared before us were too conceptual for us to comprehend. It wasn't until the early '90s (when we ... More >>

Amy Winehouse: What a Loss

[Mental Notes] RIP renowned Chicano artist Gilbert 'Magu' Lujan

Why 27 is the Most Dangerous Age in Music; Amy Winehouse Tributes from M.I.A., Rome Ramirez and More

​27 is rock and roll's most hazardous number.On Saturday, Amy Winehouse joined an exclusive club after the five-time Grammy winner was found dead in her London home at the age of 27. It is the age at which a number of pop stars have died from overdoses, suicides, murders, or in some cases, just ... More >>

Kurt Cobain's Hometown to Consider Naming In his Honor

 Rolling Stone reported today that the  Aberdeen city council in Washington state,  is considering a proposal to name a local bridge and park in honor of late grungeman Kurt Cobain. The public works conveyance up for honor is the Young Street Bridge which according to legend is the sa ... More >>

Five Music Biopics We'd Like To See

​ Over the last decade, Hollywood has pumped out an increasing number of music biopics, treating us to everything from enjoyable theatrical hits (8 Mile) to wobbly, tear-jerking cable duds (Take Me Home: The John Denver Story). With Jeff Buckley, Sam Cooke and Clash movies in the works and rumor ... More >>

Top Three WTF Kurt Cobain Tributes: Jared Leto Goes Tasteless, a Hometown Statue and Miley Cyrus Fantasies

​Ahh, Kurt Cobain, we miss you so. Seventeen years after your death, commemorative Tweets and blogs are standard issue, but some people went the extra mile. (Probably not the extra mile the Nirvana frontman would've wanted, but oh well.)

Comics Writer Charles Soule Talks About '27' and Death, You Know

Renzo Podesta; Inset: W. Scott Forbes​​There's a perverse romance to the rock 'n' roll aesthetic of living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse. The fatalistic edict is both empowering and life-affirming, even if it's ultimately just an over-the-top, immature "fuck you" to one's mort ... More >>

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Strange Love: Musical Weirdness From Daniel Johnston And Co.

www.myspace.com/dannyjohnston​Austin singer, songwriter and artist Daniel Johnston's six-album box set is due on June 22 (via Munster Records). Johnston became the musical and artistic elite's best kept secret in the early '80s; he self-distributed a series of home-recorded songs embellished with ... More >>

Five Indie Sell Outs: Does Anyone Really Care Anymore?

Andrew YoussefPearl Jam at the Gibson Amphitheater last September​There was a time when leveling the word "sellout" at a band was the equivalent of pinning a scarlet letter to a musician's leather jacket. For some of those bands who made it big in the '90s, fame was ostensibly a lamentable state o ... More >>

Pavement Launch Reunion Tour, Gorillaz Chased by Bruce Willis in New Video, Lil Wayne, Dave Grohl

Pavement fans: the reunion that hits Coachella has begun (in New Zealand). Stereogum has the set list. Coachella co-headliners Gorillaz debut video for "Stylo"--first single off Plastic Beach album out March 9--starring everybody's favorite action hero Bruce Willis in bad guy role. Click to watch ... More >>

Twitter to Be Used to Contact Michael Jackson, Other Dead Folks

"I see dead celebrities."​Twitter has many uses: spreading important information and breaking news. Seeing super-awesome iPhone pictures from concerts that we're attending. Letting us know when Ashley Tisdale is getting her hair done. But now the limits of Twitter's power will truly be tested, as ... More >>

Smells Like Political Spirit

Former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic has been heavily involved in politics since the death of Kurt Cobain. On Wednesday, he filed to run for county clerk of Wahkiakum County (it's in Washington, and no, I don't know how to pronounce that) as a member of the Grange party. Novoselic is reportedly ru ... More >>

[CD Review] Melvins, 'Nude With Boots' (Ipecac)

Still Big in Japan

Cheap Trick

The Cobain of His Existence

About a Son’s Director Portrays the Late Nirvana Front Man Through Other People’s Music

CD Review

Various Artists, Kurt Cobain: About a Son (Barsuk)

Kurt Cobain: Far From Forgotten

Director A.J. Schnack will be releasing his new documentary Kurt Cobain: About A Son in early October. The film will consist of scenic footage from the Washington cities Aberdeen, Olympia and Seattle (where Cobain lived), along with audio recordings done from a series of interviews conducted by jour ... More >>

Buzz Band

The Melvins plow back through town with a (sort of) new lineup but the same old sound

Nixon called Warren Commission "a hoax"

The vaults of Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and John Lennon COMBINED got nothing on those fab Nixon tapes -- now on their way to Yorba Linda! Recent listenings revealed that: * The Dick referred to the Warren Commission report that concluded Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone killing JFK as "the greatest ho ... More >>

Troubled Man

The deeply disturbed life and times of a musical prodigy

No Bueno, Big Guy

OC life is not the life for D.I.

All This Useless Beauty

Arty Last Days misses out on Cobains populist passion

His Own Private Biopic

Gus Van Sant resurrects the ever enigmatic Kurt Cobain with a lyrical blast from the avant-garde

Celebrity Skinned

A former Dawsons Creek star tackles a mythic musician with willful incoherence

Nevermind

Gus Van Sant and the Last Days of Kurt Cobain

Here Comes the Sun

Shonen Knife put some sweetness in your life

On a Clear Day

From Christopher Shinns On the Mountain, Sophocles wavers in the distance

Radio-Friendly Unit Shifter

Box set sheds new light on playful, pubescent, private side of Nirvana

Pretty in the Dark

Holy Ghost Revivals vampy punk melodrama

A Portrait of the Revolutionary as a Young Punk

Kurt Cobains Journals

Poseur Explosion

Rape Him

They saved Kurt Cobains pain

We Respond

Is David Woodard's Life His Art?

Or is his art his life?
Or is he just scamming us?

Hippie week!

Love! Peace! Naivete!

Letters

Punk Junkies

How to be part of the Zeitgeist without being onto it

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45 Months in the Life of a Register Rock Critic